When Christmas was spooky season
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
We’ve all heard the reference to “scary ghost stories” in the Christmas carol “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” but most of us …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
We’ve all heard the reference to “scary ghost stories” in the Christmas carol “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” but most of us …
The Hound of the Hagavilles
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Growing up in the hinterlands of Bonner County, there was no reason to lean into decorating the front of our …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
It was already midday when my mom and I left home for our college road trip, taking the old roads through eastern Washington. Washington State …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Everybody is afraid of something. When I was 7 years old, there was a period of time lasting about a year when I was consumed …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It was a dark and not-so-stormy night about 10 years ago when Jon Arnhold awoke in the wee hours, sure that he was dying. He …
The Sandpoint Reader is our town's local, independent weekly newspaper. "Independent" means that the Reader is locally owned, in a partnership between Publisher Ben Olson and Keokee Co. Publishing, the media company owned by Chris Bessler that also publishes Sandpoint Magazine and Sandpoint Online. Sandpoint Reader LLC is a completely independent business unit; no big newspaper group or corporate conglomerate or billionaire owner dictates our editorial policy. And we want the news, opinion and lifestyle stories we report to be freely available to all interested readers - so unlike many other newspapers and media websites, we have NO PAYWALL on our website. The Reader relies wholly on the support of our valued advertisers, as well as readers who voluntarily contribute. Want to ensure that local, independent journalism survives in our town? You can help support the Reader for as little as $1.